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The International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) Global Network describes itself as a "non-profit, non-government organization for the sustainable elimination of iodine deficiency worldwide."

History
ICCIDD was founded in 1986, with its inaugural meeting held in Kathmandu, Nepal. In 2002, the Network for Sustained Elimination of Iodine Deficiency was launched at the Special Session for Children. In 2012, the two organizations combined to form the ICCIDD Global Network.

Partners
ICCIDD has partnered with the World Health Organization and UNICEF on work related to iodine deficiency. It has also partnered with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition to establish quality management systems for salt iodization.

ICCIDD is also affiliated with the International Union of Nutritional Sciences.

GiveWell
In 2009, charity evaluator GiveWell considered ICCIDD as a charity to recommend to donors, and deided, based on a cursory, open-ended review, that it was unlikely to meet GiveWell's criteria at the time.

However, in 2014, GiveWell announced that ICCIDD would be among the organizations that it would investigate in greater depth as a potential top recommended charity, along with the Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Nothing But Nets, and some UNICEF immunization programs. In early 2014, GiveWell staff members had a series of conversations with Michael Zimmerman, the executive director of ICCIDD, and a conversation with Greg Garrett of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (and ICCIDD board member), notes from which were published online.